My No Way Home Scenario

As WordPress continues to recycle old prompts, I pulled another prompt from The Coffee Monsterz Co to respond to today

Think of someone who is dear to you. If you both suddenly had your memories wiped, do you think you would eventually become close again?

SPOILER ALERT: The movie Spider Man: No Way Home, ends with Spider-Man (Tom Holland) having Dr. Strange to cast a spell so the entire world forgets his alter ego, Peter Parker.

From a creative standpoint, this is done as a chance to establish an entirely new status quo for our hero. Furthermore, it gives him a chance to re-establish connections with his friends Ned and MJ. Of course, the sick irony is that while Peter remembers MJ and Ned, they do not remember him.

The movie ends with a viewer left with some cliff-hanging questions: will the Peter’s friends remember knowing him? Will Pete attempt to re-estabish ties Like today’s prompt, it also makes one wonder since they’re on a proverbial clean slate whether or not they would become close again.

Rob in a No Way Home Scenario

As I sit here and brainstorm this topic, it has occurred to me that of the people in my life – aside from my family of course – that meeting and befriending people truly is a matter of timing and luck.

If we had forgotten that Guillaume and I were brothers, I don’t know that we would become close. We have a lot in common, more now than we did as kids. But we just move among different circles in or lives. That and the fact that beyond being brothers, we really aren’t that close. I think I could say the same about Phred. We get along. She are closer than Guillaume and I are, but again, don’t know that we would bump into one another – let alone become friends.

My extended family (my uncle’s kids) might even be worse. To put it mildly, they are Trump supporters. I am not. Long before MAGA was a catchy tagline, I would go to my uncle’s house for Thanksgiving and Christmas and one of my cousin regurgitated Fox News soundbites for YEARS. As I get older, I just stopped going over to their house for the holidays. Today, we’re not even friends on Facebook anymore. I like them as people, we just cannot tolerate each other’s political views.

I know that the point of this prompt is to get us to realize that our family and our oldest friends are people with whom we would not associate if we met them today. My problem is that I can say that about virtually everyone in my life. If we were to lose our memories of our friendship, I do t know that I would ever re-connect with any of my family, friends on loved ones. Family, like it or not, usually bonds over common experiences. I think that it takes a lot of luck to actually make a friend. It takes a damn-near miracle to fall in love with someone.

As much as the hopeless romantic in me thinks about fate, most of the relationships in our life are a result of random circumstance.

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